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Drama was introduced to Britain from Europe by the Romans, and auditoriums were constructed across the country for this purpose.

Roman theatre at Verulamium (St Albans)

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English drama

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the English Renaissance, approximately 1500–1660, saw a flowering of the drama and all the arts. The two candidates for the earliest comedy in English Nicholas...

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Drama

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The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy. In English (as was the analogous case in many...

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English Renaissance theatre

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essential enabling factor in the success of English Renaissance drama. Once they were in operation, drama could become a fixed and permanent, rather than...

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Oxford School of Drama

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of Drama is a drama school in the United Kingdom. It is based at Wootton, ten miles north of Oxford. The school is an independent, vocational drama school...

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Closet drama

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turned to closet drama when his plays could no longer be produced during this period; he was in exile from England during the English Civil War. Following...

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Korean drama

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Korean drama (Korean: 한국 드라마; RR: Han-guk deurama), also known as Koreanovela or K-drama, refers to Korean-language television shows made in South Korea...

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English literature

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English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over the course of...

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Records of Early English Drama

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The Records of Early English Drama (REED) is a performance history research project, based at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded...

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Medieval theatre

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themes were almost always religious. The most famous examples are the English cycle dramas, the York Mystery Plays, the Chester Mystery Plays, the Wakefield...

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Emma Corrin

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December 1995) is an English actor. They portrayed Diana, Princess of Wales in the fourth season of the Netflix historical drama The Crown (2020), for...

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Kitchen sink realism

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Kitchen sink realism (or kitchen sink drama) is a British cultural movement that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in theatre, art, novels,...

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Restoration comedy

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Puritan regime, reopening of the theatres in 1660 marked a renaissance of English drama. Sexually explicit language was encouraged by King Charles II (1660–1685)...

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History of theatre

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renaissance of English drama. With the restoration of the monarch in 1660 came the restoration of and the reopening of the theatre. English comedies written...

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Historical drama

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A historical drama (also period drama, period piece or just period) is a dramatic work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and...

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Academic drama

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original plays began to be written in English, preparing the way for the English drama of the Elizabethan Age. Jesuit drama Studentes, a German Neo-Latin play...

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English Renaissance

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English prose." He proposed that speech was the greatest gift to man from God and to speak or write poorly was an affront. The peak of English drama and...

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List of prostitutes and courtesans

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Mann (USA) (English) (Drama); from novel by John O'Hara Hattie (Susan Sarandon) in Pretty Baby (1978) by Louis Malle (USA) (English) (Drama) Ilya (Melina...

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Stuart Restoration

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Loughborough University, 2016) online. Robert D. Hume, The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century (1976) p. 205 Hume, 206–209. Judith...

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Herodian dynasty

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a Russian drama by Dmitri Alexandrov Herod and Mariamne (1938), an English drama by Clemence Dane Herod and Mariamne (1888), an English poem by Amelie...

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Culture of England

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Pooh. The peak of English drama and theatre is said to be the age of Elizabeth I; a golden age in English history where the arts, drama and creative work...

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Taiga drama

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Taiga drama (Japanese: 大河ドラマ, Hepburn: Taiga dorama, "Big River Drama") is the name NHK gives to the annual year-long historical drama television series...

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Mariamne I

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) Mariamne (1723), an English drama by Elijah Fenton Mariamne (1723), a French drama by Voltaire Mariamne (1725), a French drama by Augustin Nadal La Marianna...

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Actor

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The re-opening of the theatres in 1660 signalled a renaissance of English drama. English comedies written and performed in the Restoration period from 1660...

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Chen Liping

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In March 2023, Chen portrayed her first English drama role in the second season of Titoudao, a televised drama adaptation of a stageplay with the same...

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Poetic justice

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related to the character's own action, hence the name poetic irony. English drama critic Thomas Rymer coined the phrase in The Tragedies of the Last Age...

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